A Lacanian Reading of Sag-E Velgard by Sadeq Hedayat
Elham Narenji Professor: Dr. Rajabi Date: 1.11.2013
A Lacanian Reading of Sag-e Velgard by Sadeq Hedayat
Abstract
This paper tends to critically apply Lacanian orders on Sag-e Velgard a short story by Sadeq Hedayat. Established on Lacan’s psychoanalysis human’s unconscious is highly structured like the structure of language that can be systematically analyzed. There are three stages in each human’s life that include the imaginary, the symbolic and the real order and each of them contain some significant features. In Hedayat’s story we are introduced with the life of a stray dog which is living a suffering life highly distinct from the life he used to have in past. To conclude this study aims to demonstrate the Lacan’s investigations on human psyche and how these orders can be applied on a short story which illustrates an individual’s life in a literary way.
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Literature Review
Hedayat’s works had been always under the pressure of a many critics’ analyses. Due to the fact that Sag-e Velgard is one of the most noticeable works of him, many researches, around the subjects such as cultural and political criticism of the time that it was written and also criticizing the story based on structuralism, have been done. For instance two works of Homa Katouzian such as a research paper named Man and Animal in Hedayat’s “Stray Dog” and also a book called Sadeq Hedayat : the life and literature of an Iranian writer can be mentioned. Many books around the topic of criticizing Hedayat’s works have been published so far. As an example Mohammad Reza Qorbani’s book named Naqd va Tafsir-e Asar-e Sadeq Hedayat can be observed. Many works also can be noticed about Lacan’s theories such as How to Read Lacan by Slavoj Ziezek, Jacques Lacan: psychoanalysis and the subject of literatureby Jean Michel Rabate and alsoOutside the dream: Lacan and French styles of psychoanalysis by Martin Stanton. However, refer to many searches that were done, a work criticizing Sage
A Lacanian Reading of Sag-e Velgard by Sadeq Hedayat
Abstract
This paper tends to critically apply Lacanian orders on Sag-e Velgard a short story by Sadeq Hedayat. Established on Lacan’s psychoanalysis human’s unconscious is highly structured like the structure of language that can be systematically analyzed. There are three stages in each human’s life that include the imaginary, the symbolic and the real order and each of them contain some significant features. In Hedayat’s story we are introduced with the life of a stray dog which is living a suffering life highly distinct from the life he used to have in past. To conclude this study aims to demonstrate the Lacan’s investigations on human psyche and how these orders can be applied on a short story which illustrates an individual’s life in a literary way.
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Literature Review
Hedayat’s works had been always under the pressure of a many critics’ analyses. Due to the fact that Sag-e Velgard is one of the most noticeable works of him, many researches, around the subjects such as cultural and political criticism of the time that it was written and also criticizing the story based on structuralism, have been done. For instance two works of Homa Katouzian such as a research paper named Man and Animal in Hedayat’s “Stray Dog” and also a book called Sadeq Hedayat : the life and literature of an Iranian writer can be mentioned. Many books around the topic of criticizing Hedayat’s works have been published so far. As an example Mohammad Reza Qorbani’s book named Naqd va Tafsir-e Asar-e Sadeq Hedayat can be observed. Many works also can be noticed about Lacan’s theories such as How to Read Lacan by Slavoj Ziezek, Jacques Lacan: psychoanalysis and the subject of literatureby Jean Michel Rabate and alsoOutside the dream: Lacan and French styles of psychoanalysis by Martin Stanton. However, refer to many searches that were done, a work criticizing Sage
Cited: Bressler, Charles E. Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. Print. Bertens, Hans. Literary Theory: The Basics. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Print. Katouzian, Homa. “Man and Animal in Hedayat’s Stray Dog”. (PDF) 8